(Scotland) One who distrains property.
(Scotland) One who distrains property.
The poinder no doubt is preferable at common law, because the assignment not being completed by intimation, the debtor continues still proprietor
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(obsolete, Scotland) A seizure of property etc in lieu of a debt; the animal or property so seized.
(obsolete, Scotland) Capable of being poinded.
(obsolete, Scotland) To seize property in this manner.
A historical Scottish legal term meaning capable of being poinded — that is, subject to the legal process of poinding (seizing a debtor's goods as security for a debt). Used in formal legal and property contexts in older Scots law.
(Scotland) The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.